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From: Andy Mender <andymenderunix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:09:59
Message-Id: CAHVfhudK-7rijiBXVFQBH_sRmY94_eT-VC=oTzWxOOd5hxgseQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers by William Hubbs
1 Alright then, I will give bash4.4 a try and if there are any problems, I'll
2 file a proper bug report.
3
4 Best regards,
5 Andy
6
7 On 30 September 2016 at 15:38, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
8
9 > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:29:05AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
10 > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:56:34 +0200
11 > > Andy Mender <andymenderunix@×××××.com> wrote:
12 > >
13 > > > I believe the main problem comes from /bin/bash and potential symlinks
14 > that
15 > > > would need to be introduced as part of the slotting.
16 > >
17 > > In a pinch you could probably get away with
18 > > calling :1 /usr/bin/bash-4.4 instead of /usr/bin/bash, and then
19 > > offering no luxuries beyond that, leaving it up to the user to do the
20 > rest.
21 > >
22 > > Then you could test it in ~/ with PATH + Symlink in ~/bin/ ... maybe.
23 > >
24 > > There would just not be much point, because the real purpose of testing
25 > > 4.4 is not for fear of it breaking user experience ( which is a
26 > > problem, but not the primary motive ), but for making everything else
27 > > that runs with bash runs OK.
28 > >
29 > > Maybe you could do some horrible QA Violation like USE=multislot
30 > > which changes the slot from :0 and adds the -suffix at the same time.
31 > >
32 > > But I still don't think its a useful or good idea.
33 >
34 > I am against it as well. The purpose of this testing is to eventually
35 > move to bash-4.4 being stable and replacing bash-4.3, so slotting it
36 > would make that more complex later.
37 >
38 > William
39 >
40 >